I am very curious about this topic. I understood that Yahoo follows 'no-follows' for content but doesn't count that toward your 'trust' factor with Y!
From
Yahoo:
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Yahoo! Slurp obeys the rel="nofollow" attribute for links. Webmasters and blog owners can apply a rel="nofollow" attribute to any hyperlink on their page to indicate that the link may not be an approved or trusted link. Slurp may use a "nofollow" link for discovering content, but the link will not be considered an approved link for consideration for ranking of the target page.
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So, if that's true, why would I find a link like that in the 'backlinks' to a site? I was checking backlinks today for canonical issues and I saw a link from a blog that I thought had no-follow. I checked and it does, but that page shows in my backlinks.
If it doesn't
count toward my site, why is it
counted in my backlinks? Search engines are odd, yeah, they are.
MJ